Re: Cinco de Mayo

Re: Cinco de Mayo

they have nothing in common.

should have made this public.

Most people don't know that back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise was manufactured in England .
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> In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiments scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico , which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York . This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico .
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> But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York .
> The ship hit an iceberg and sank, and the cargo was forever lost.
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> The people of Mexico , who were crazy about mayonnaise,
> and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss.
> Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning,
> which they still observe to this day.
>
> The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th
> and is known, of course,
> as
> Sinko de Mayo.

Re: Cinco de Mayo

Re: Cinco de Mayo

i dont remember when, but there chicano/chicana protests trying to abandon the corona/coors/budwiser advertisements for cinco de mayo...
how unimportant is cinco de mayo?
i can bet money that if a national poll was taken,
asking people what cinco de mayo represents,
a majority would say "their independence day"

Re: Cinco de Mayo

i dont know the exact year, but i'll just say, way back in the day, after mexico had just won their independence from spain in a very long war (which mexico borrowed mass amount of money for britain), during the U.S. civil war, Britain felt that it was a good time to try and take over mexico by demanding to be repayed from all the money they lent mexico in the war, and mexico being a poor country wasnt able to pay it back so i think it was napoleon's nephew or something like that, who organized an army and sent them to invade mexico to the city of puebla, and as pretty much all of mexico new that puebla was the place where they would land, it was mexican citizens who were underdogs, fought the battle of puebla and astonishingly beat the british on may the fifth. it was a very memorable battle of citizen resistance.
over time as the celebration began to spread to the U.S., mexicans still unwealthy, took all the money that beer companies offered them to market cinco de mayo, and spreaded the wealth, but many mexicans said no and protested, and now i believe there is only 1 beer co. that still holds part of cinco de mayo as oppossed to 7 or whatever the number was

Re: Cinco de Mayo

Originally Posted by seandlr

i dont know the exact year, but i'll just say, way back in the day, after mexico had just won their independence from spain in a very long war (which mexico borrowed mass amount of money for britain), during the U.S. civil war, Britain felt that it was a good time to try and take over mexico by demanding to be repayed from all the money they lent mexico in the war, and mexico being a poor country wasnt able to pay it back so i think it was napoleon's nephew or something like that, who organized an army and sent them to invade mexico to the city of puebla, and as pretty much all of mexico new that puebla was the place where they would land, it was mexican citizens who were underdogs, fought the battle of puebla and astonishingly beat the british on may the fifth. it was a very memorable battle of citizen resistance.
over time as the celebration began to spread to the U.S., mexicans still unwealthy, took all the money that beer companies offered them to market cinco de mayo, and spreaded the wealth, but many mexicans said no and protested, and now i believe there is only 1 beer co. that still holds part of cinco de mayo as oppossed to 7 or whatever the number was

Napoleon was British? This i did not know.

Originally Posted by JustSteve

well, for all intensive porpoises it is, will sell out within seconds tomorrow.